Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the title of the a stage play that opened in London's West End in 2016. J.K. Rowling collaborated on the project with John Tiffany (playwright) and Jack Thorne (director). The play will also open on Broadway.
The play will be presented in two parts which are meant to be seen one after the other either on a matinee and evening performance or two consecutive evenings.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a sequel and the eighth story in the series. It is set nineteen years later, and will follow Harry as an overworked Ministry of Magic employee and his youngest son, Albus Severus Potter (who is the cursed child) who is dealing with the burden of being a Potter.
Harry Potter is about a boy who's parents died when he was just 1 years old. His parents got killed by an evil wizard named Voldemort. He tried to use the killing curse on Harry but it back-fired and it killed Voldemort, but not entirely, and all was left on Harry was a lightning shaped scar on his forehead. Since then, he was living with his aunt and uncles house. On his eleventh birthday, a half-giant named Hagridcame to their house and told Harry he was a wizard. For the next 7 years, Harry went to a wizard school called Hogwarts and he made friends with two people, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. For years he has been on different adventures trying to fight Voldemort. These books are great for girls and boys and men and women. It's filled with magic and adventures. Personally, I think the Harry Potter series is the best series of all time!
It happens before the book.
Unless she actually comes out and gives a statement on it, we really don't know. When asked about it, she defended the change by stating on Twitter "brown eyes, frizzy hair and very clever. White skin was never specified. Rowling loves black Hermione". Of course she also has acknowledged on several occasions that sometimes her stories had inconsistencies that she didn't notice until others brought them up. In this case she overlooked the fact that Hermione is repeated stated to have bushy BROWN hair. All of the black actresses playing Hermione in the play have had very much BLACK hair. All the official illustrations of Hermione in the original books certainly do not have her portrayed as black. J. K. Rowling has often mentioned that she saw herself in Hermione when she wrote her - and J. K. is not black. So yes - it is a retcon.
When it comes down to it, it doesn't really matter all that much:
1) Hermione is a fictional character so all "facts" about her are made up anyway
2) Bushy hair is actually a common trait among many women of black African ancestry if they let their hair grow longer and the bushiness of Hermione's hair is generally made more prominent mention of than the fact that it was brown.
3) Getting a good actress in the part was far more important than sticking to the book 100%. One would assume that Noma Dumenzweni was chosen based on her strong acting - she already had an Olivier award for her role in Raisin in the Sun. Once she was in the role it made sense to follow up with another black actress when they needed someone to take over her role.
4) Hermione's skin color is not the only inconsistency - in both the play and even in the movies. It is repeated mentioned in the books that Harry has BLACK hair and GREEN eyes and the actor playing him in the play has BROWN hair and BROWN eyes. Using Daniel Radcliff as Harry in the movies is also a retcon when you realize his eyes are not even vaguely green despite it being such a big deal in the books about him having emerald green eyes like his mother - or as put by Ginny
"His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad,
His hair is as dark as a blackboard.
I wish he was mine, he's really divine,
The hero who conquered the Dark Lord."
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Harry was also supposed grow up to be rather tall like his dad and Daniel isn't.
Perhaps J. K. Rowling hasn't acknowledged that changing Hermione to black is a retcon because she doesn't consider it to be significant. Compared to the other inconsistencies in translating the books to other media like movies and the play, it really is ultimately rather insignificant. It probably sticks out to a lot of people because they got the image in their head of what Hermione looks like based on the books and it clashes with their established "head cannon".
yes. albus loves shanoa as a sister but not a spouse.
Most sources are in consensus that a movie version of Harry Potter and the Curse Child will not be made into a movie, due to the story being made specifically for the stage (and many people complaining about the problematic storyline). However, it is being premiered (as a play) in Broadway, spring of 2018.
No, there are no current plans to make Harry Potter and the Cursed Child into a movie. It was written as a stage play which is currently running in London and is due to open on Broadway.
There are currently (as of August 2016) no plans to convert the play into a prose book. There are plans, however, to release a "Definitive Collector's Edition" with the finalized version of the play that will reflect any changes made during or after the previews; the first printing was a "Special Rehearsal Edition," containing the initial script from the early part of the preview period.
Harry has the same 3 children in the play that he did in the "19 years later" epilogue of book 7 of the series.
That would be Albus Severus Potter (named after two of the greatest Headmasters of Hogwarts).
Scorpius malfoy ,amos digory , Hermione granger and Ron weasly.
19 years later
The main characters are essentially Harry Potter and his second son Albus Severus Potter whose stories are somewhat juxtaposed and intertwined.
Other main characters are, Scorpius Malfoy, Ginny Weasley, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Rose Granger-Weasley, Theodore Nott, Draco Malfoy, Amos Diggory, Delphi Diggory, Cedric Diggory, Bane, Padma Patil, Moaning Myrtle, Professor Umbridge, Severus Snape, and Professor McGonagall